What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable. - Rebecca Solnit

Fire, brimstone and impending apocalypse have always had great success in the pulpit, and the apocalypse is always easier to imagine than the strange circuitous routes to what actually comes next.

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”